[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Clear any errors recorded before i915.ko is loaded

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Thu Apr 7 05:55:09 CEST 2011


On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 07:52:27 +0100, Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:

> So that I can separate out bug reports that are caused by us during
> initialisation from those that are caused by whatever was running before
> us.

Ok, sounds like good -next material to me then.

> Considering the difficulty in working out what caused a PGTBL_ER during
> initialisation, any reduction in the volume of noise is a good thing.

Yeah, accurate error reports can go a long ways towards finding the real
trouble.

-- 
keith.packard at intel.com
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